Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Fooled Again (Updated)

‘‘Erik had no role on the transition team. This is a complete
fabrication,’’ said a spokesman for Prince in a statement. ‘‘The meeting
had nothing to do with President Trump. Why is the so-called
under-resourced intelligence community messing around with surveillance
of American citizens when they should be hunting terrorists?’’

Prince
is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security firm that became
a symbol of US abuses in Iraq after a series of incidents including one
in 2007 in which the company’s guards were accused — and later
criminally convicted — of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square.
Prince sold the firm, which was subsequently rebranded, but has
continued building a private paramilitary empire with contracts across
the Middle East and Asia.

Prince would probably have been seen as
too controversial to serve in any official capacity in the Trump
transition or administration. But his ties to Trump advisers, experience
with clandestine work and relationship with the royal leaders of the
Emirates — where he moved in 2010 amid mounting legal problems for his
American business — would have positioned him as an ideal go-between....Along with his sister Betsy DeVos.The feature drew my attention before the lead, and forget about the bulls*t charges and innuendo, it reminds you of how little the private contractors and military mercenaries appear in the paper these days. It's all superficial and shallow propaganda now. Nothing about DynCorp, Halliburton, Bechtel, nothing about the $$ being paid to firms. The only time you see anything is when some "contractor" is killed in Afghanistan or somewhere. Another backfire from the printed war pre$$, which curiously missed Trump's arms shipments to Bahrain.

Senate continues descent into partisan warfare over GorsuchI want the Dems to filibuster and McConnell to change the rules. Then, after 2018 -- with 25 Democrats in the Senate up for reelection against only 8 Republicans -- there will be a near Republican supermajority to pass through even more rabid and radical right-wingers once Ginsburg and Kennedy collapse. I'd say Democrats shot themselves in the foot again, but they do it so often you begin to believe it's the role they are meant to play. Unless, of course, they crash the economy on Trump and we get another "change" election, complete with fraudulent narrative and vote rigging.Full of promise, Opening Day and Red Sox deliveredDid not see one pitch.Below the fold:

Trump renew attacks on Clinton, Obama on TwitterI scanned it and the NYT didn't unmask Susan Rice in that pathetic and incoherent piece of slop. The scandal is the Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign, and it tells you two things. They found nothing they could use against Trump. That's why we got the Billy Bush tape; everything else ties into the Jewish mafia and that is useless in an AmeriKan campaign. Trying to put a Russian face on it, and that is failing.Scientists document melting of glaciers around the worldWhich $cienti$ts?

"In 1991, Senator John Heinz, Republican of Pennsylvania, and six other people were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz’s plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pa....

Related:"Senator John Heinz and former Senator John Tower had served on powerful Senate banking and finance committees and were outspoken critics of the Federal Reserve and the Eastern Establishment. On April 4, 1991, Senator John Heinz was killed in a plane crash near Philadelphia. On the next day, April 5, 1991, former Senator John Tower was also killed in a plane crash. The coincidences seem to mount...."His wife would then marry John Kerry!And then, a shot rings out in the Memphis sky....

In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis...."

Related:

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

I think that was what got him killed. As we see today, race agitation is allowed. Wars and foreign policy are taken much more seriously. Then one month and one day later, any hopes for peace and against war lay splayed out on the kitchen floor of a hotel ballroom in Los Angeles and I can't type anymore about that because here come the tears. UPDATE:They say there is no fool like an old fool.... except I have not only not gone and purchased a Globe the last two mornings, I have not even looked at the web site. I gue$$ I'm just tired of all the lies, distortions, one-sided agenda-pushing, and offensive elitist insult. The latest coming from the crap media is the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack -- after they HAD THEIR CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONFISCATED and REMOVED WAY BACK IN 2013! The Russians are rightly asking why women and children were so close to an Islamist weapons depot and storage facility that contained chemical weapons -- as well as question the very veracity of the video. We've seen fakes from Syria before, and its a safe conclusion to disbelieve any video claim coming from the ma$$ media.It's not like the ma$$ media had any credibility left after the election, but this latest lie on top of the Russian influence in the election (even though there is no evidence of hacking and it wouldn't have changed the outcome, we are told, while they ignore the colossal scandal of Obama administration spying on the opponents political campaign) means its been totally exposed as nothing but a propaganda outfit. Always was, but they have never been this bad and its getting worse by the day. Related: The US military is using controversial white phosphorous in Iraq — againThat was last September, and as you see it's a one-day wonder of a report and NO BIG DEAL when AmeriKa (or its controller Israel) uses chemical weapons.What was it the Who said?

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